Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Thou shall not share

Monday, August 31st, 2009My good friend Gerd Leonhard, has published a great post on the UK's desire to disconnect those that illegally fileshare. As companies struggle to shore up the thinning value of their analogue business models.[caption id="attachment_4328" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Culture lock down. ...

Networked economics comes to the music industry

Friday, August 7th, 2009Richard Wray writes,It has finally sunk in that there will not be one single replacement for the ongoing drop in "physical" music sales - in other words, the perpetual decline in CD buying. Instead, a host of new services will ...

Communities Dominate Brands – prescient

Saturday, August 1st, 2009Tim Harrap in a twitter post mentioned a conversation @ Marketing in Australia that identifies Communities Dominate Brands as being – prescient. We have become linked to what is now commonly called Social Media - thought I still prefer the ...

Creating economic value in; content, social communication and Mobility

Friday, March 27th, 2009Was the guts of Gerd Leonhards presentation at the Nokia Siemens Transformation conference in Cologne this week.Fascinating stuff, and I was very glad that we got to shake hands and have a good chat too.Gerds argument is that the global ...

Currency of information – the future of newspapers

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009The future of newspapers is a bit like climate change: there are now far fewer ‘old-media’ deniers. said Alan RushbridgerIn December last year I wroteI predict we will see newspapers fail, the economic downturn is the final scene in this ...

Taxing music

Monday, February 9th, 2009The Isle of Man is considering implementing a plan that allows people to download unlimited music in return for a basic tax to ISP's of £1.00 per month, in an effort to find a way to solve illegal music piracy.The ...

Sharing drives economies

Friday, February 6th, 2009The Dutch government, in cooperation with the Dutch research institute TNO, has recently conducted a survey into the economic effects of file sharing on the music industry. The results are quite surprising as they’ve concluded that illegally downloading music (which ...

The glittering allure of the mobile society

Thursday, December 4th, 2008[caption id="attachment_2644" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image: Scott Beale @ laughingsquid.com"][/caption]In February of this year I found myself on a cold and rainy day in Evian, at the behest of Microsoft at an international summit for CIO’s to give the final keynote ...

The Communication Ideal

Thursday, November 20th, 2008I met Jonathan MacDonald whilst working on the launch of Blyk last year. You might say it was love at first sight.I can remember on one occassion a particuarly charged group meeting, with J-Mac sitting on my shoulder egging me ...

Evolution of SMLXL

Friday, March 28th, 2008 In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge.Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences.  We were some ...

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